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Death Clue #12
Two days after Poe's death, a Baltimore newspaper reports that Poe was suffering.
from "an attack of mania a potu" or drug- or alcohol-induced hallucinations. Our Baltimore Correspondence, Baltimore, October 8, 1849. Our city was yesterday shocked with the announcement of the death of Edgar A. Poe, Esq., who arrived in this city about a week since after a successful tour through Virginia, where he delivered a series of able lectures. On last Wednesday, election day, he was found near the Fourth ward polls laboring under an attack of mania a potu, and in a most shocking condition. Being recognized by some of our citizens he was placed in a carriage and conveyed to the Washington Hospital, where every attention has been bestowed on him. he lingered, however, until yesterday morning, when death put a period to his existence. He was a most eccentric genius, with many friends and many foes, but all, I feel satisfied, will view with regret the sad fate of the poet and critic. --The New York Herold, October 8, 1849
Death Clue #12
Two days after Poe's death, a Baltimore newspaper reports that Poe was suffering.
from "an attack of mania a potu" or drug- or alcohol-induced hallucinations.
Our Baltimore Correspondence, Baltimore, October 8, 1849. Our city was yesterday shocked with the announcement of the death of Edgar A. Poe, Esq., who arrived in this city about a week since after a successful tour through Virginia, where he delivered a series of able lectures. On last Wednesday, election day, he was found near the Fourth ward polls laboring under an attack of mania a potu, and in a most shocking condition. Being recognized by some of our citizens he was placed in a carriage and conveyed to the Washington Hospital, where every attention has been bestowed on him. he lingered, however, until yesterday morning, when death put a period to his existence. He was a most eccentric genius, with many friends and many foes, but all, I feel satisfied, will view with regret the sad fate of the poet and critic.
--The New York Herold, October 8, 1849